It involves using a computer-automated system that allows social workers and law enforcement to share information and better provide long-term counseling and treatment services. The goal is to eventually duplicate the system for all such teams set up in 25 counties and five Native American tribes across the state.

The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that 9 million children nationwide live in homes where an adult uses illegal drugs.

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